Latam Cardano Community Operations - DAO infrastructure for a Wide Purpose

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

Additional applicants

Lucas Macchiavelli

Mauro Andreoli

Juanita Jaramillo

Rodolfo Miranda

Jaime Andres Posada

Otavio Lima

Jose Miguel de Gamboa

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

No dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source

[METADATA] Category of proposal

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Our PURPOSE

LATAM Cardano Community is a decentralized alliance that inspire and empowers individuals, organizations, initiatives and governments with interest in Latin América, to foster collaboration and to expand the adoption of Cardano to facilitate its impact in and from the region to the world.

LATAM TownHall

The LATAM TownHall is a central activity of recurring sessions, performed in our own languages, Spanish and Portuguese, where people can collaborate, present, share and discuss ideas and projects. Every week we present different topics, and foster people's own choice for discussion or activities, facilitating the grow and expansion of the community.

Some characteristics of our TownHalls are:

• Bi-Weekly moderated Zoom events with diverse content and diverse assistance
• Bi-Weekly Twitter spaces to reach a different type of audience
• Well known community moderators who facilitate and guarantee high quality conversations
• A place for the reunion of as many LATAM communities as possible, being able to speak their own language and express their own culture
• A different experience, a learning environment with an innovative mindset and decentralization in Cardano as its core

All these events are documented and recorded, to maximize reach and to build trust and transparency. You can have access to the previous ones in our youtube channel.

After more than 60 TownHalls produced, with more than 50 speakers, a Top audience on a single event of 77 people the LATAM TH has proven that it can deliver on its promises. We also held three LATAM Ideafest (F7, F8 and F9) with more than 90 proposals being presented in Spanish and Portuguese and recorded for their promotion. We have started also alternating the TownHall in zoom with Twitter Spaces, having held more than 12.

We have also produced the FUNdFest events, to celebrate and promote the Catalyst F9 and F10 funds, aiming to reach new people outside Cardano, teaching how to become a proposer and what is Cardano and Catalyst and even offering an NFT as a prize for attendance, minting 49 NFTs and facilitating the creation of nearly 30 new Cardano Wallets.

Cardano Voltaire era - CIP1694 Workshops

As we collectively embarked on the dawn of the Voltaire era, announced in November 2022, our vibrant community of Cardano stands at the threshold of an era-defining initiative.

Latam Cardano Community, hold a steadfast resolve to be an integral part of this pioneering venture – the establishment of the world's first Decentralized Government on a Blockchain.

In a decentralized government, success lies inherently in inclusion, diversity, and the harmonious symphony of a myriad of voices, minds, and cultures. Recognizing this, we took it upon ourselves to bridge this gap, sparking an initiative to engage as many voices as possible from Latin America.

We sent out a call to the entire region, and the response was an inspiring affirmation of the Latam spirit, when pioneers from eleven vibrant cities in our region responded: from BuenosAires' bustling avenues to Mexico City's ancient charm, Caracas' tropical fervor to Bogota's highland allure, La Cumbre's tranquility and Manizales' verdant beauty to Tlaxcala's cultural heritage, Puerto Madryn's coastal charm to Santiago's historic majesty, La Plata's eclectic appeal to Sao Paulo's metropolitan dynamism. 

137 people participated into those workshops, from beginners to the Blockchain and the Cardano Ecosystem, to long time veterans, from teachers to engineers. All willing to contribute, collaborate and be protagonists of these historical times.

In June 2023, we brought together a remarkable delegation: one representative from each city, culminating in a Pan Latam workshop in the enchanting setting of Punta del Este,Uruguay.

The goal was to draft our collective wisdom, our unique perspectives, and our shared aspirations into a comprehensive document, penned in English, and ready to contribute to the global conversation, representing the region. 

The fruits of our labor, were captured in a document that was sent to the CIP1694 Github and also presented to the CIP Workshop global organizers. 

PAN-LATAM CIP-1649 WORKSHOP-FinalV07042023.pdf

After that, 7 of us have attended the Edinburgh CIP1694 Workshops, were we have received a lot of appraisal by the other participants for the process we have followed and the contributions that we made.

OUR PROPOSAL

With the approval and support of the global community, we plan to continue this community building, by incorporating DAO tools to it, such as Clarity, so members can have some better onboarding processes, get more engaged to decide on specific matters, and gets easier to follow and audit the treasury spending and keep growing our reach to new heights. This will help us maintain our regular spaces (zoom and twitter spaces, as well as workshops and events organization and participation) and continue to look for improved and more ways to help to articulate LATAM talent into the global ecosystem and bring more opportunities to our people in the region.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

By running a large and diverse community across multiple countries, we certainly have tons of lessons learned that we shared with other communities within the Cardano ecosystem and we regularly publish via our channels.

All those insights can serve the Cardano community as guidance on how to establish, growth and engage communities, wether it is for Specific purposed DAOS, or for wide communities as ours.

We are continually evolving and learning about new ways to engage and growth the community, such as the initiative to organize the CIP1694 workshops and we are totally open to share that passion and lessons learned with others, as we did with the European Cardano Community last year.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

• Number of members actively participating and engaged in collaboration using our channels and the DAO tools.
• Number of new people from outside the Cardano community and from other Blockchains that join Cardano via our community.
• Listed outcomes from our contributions to Events, Articulation of Project Catalyst.
• Number of projects being help and promoted from the community
• Number of projects awarded in Catalyst after being helped
• Number of people that vote via the tools we are going to provide

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We publish everything that we do, so there is a track record of all of our activities, wether is our Gitbook, but also in our channels. By incorporating DAO tools, we aim to even have more transparency and structure to document all these accomplishments.

Though we would love to put in writing our best practices and lessons learned so others can build upon those experiences, to go even faster on the community building we need to become global at scale.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

The core team of the Latam Cardano Community, has now almost two years of tenure and contributions. Our capabilities range from event organization to community engagement, from decentralized governance to translation to local languages, from helping people to create and present their projects to actively promoting them in order for the world to learn about the LATAM opportunity

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

We will keep doing our TownHall each two Thursdays, and our Twitter spaces in between (24 events till the end of the year).

We will host the F10 ideafest, to promote LATAM's projects.

We will help LATAM people to become Reviewers in the Catalyst process and do a great job at it.

We promote the voting and participation into the different opportunities for engagement that we have.

We will keep pushing and driving Cardano adoption via more collaboration with IOG, Emurgo, Cardano Foundation, but also outside of the Cardano Space where we established relationships with many people in the Web3 space and other blockchains to drive this Space forward.

We will maintain a close collaboration in Voltaire and CIP1694 activities, so we can help drive the Minimum viable Government and the Minimum Viable Constitution (a term that we coined in the Uruguay Pan Latam workshop and was adopted at Edinburgh)

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1: 2 Townhalls and 2 Twitter spaces each month, for 6 months.

Milestone 2: 1 F10 Ideafest, created, promoted, hosted and recorded before F10 voting starts.

Milestone 3: Translation and publication of Catalyst materials to Spanish and Portuguese, hosting onboarding sessions for Community reviewers, before Review stage begins.

Milestone 4: Continue with the contributions to the Voltaire Era milestones, participating and organizing as many workshops as possible and explaining/inviting the community to join the different institutions being built, such as the Intersect MBO, the dREPS and foster more SPOs in LATAM

Milestone 5: Adopt the Clarity DAO portal, set up the community, create the proper credentials, create our multisig wallet and linked it to our financial reports and hold at least 3 voting event in the 6 months periods

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

The following deliverables will be completed and refined during the refine phase.

Milestone 1: 24 events (12 TownHalls and 12 Twitter Spaces) in 6 months time.

Milestone 2: 1 F10 Ideafest, created, promoted, hosted and recorded before voting starts, giving promotion to the LATAM proposals

Milestone 3: Translation and publication of Catalyst materials to Spanish and Portuguese, hosting onboarding sessions for Community reviewers. Before review stage begings.

Milestone 4: Continue with the contributions to the Voltaire Era milestones, participating and organizing as many workshops as possible and explaining/inviting the community to join the different institutions being built, such as the intersect MBO, the dREPS and foster more SPOs in LATAM

Milestone 5: Adopt the Clarity DAO portal, set up the community, create the proper credentials, create our multisig wallet and linked it to our financial reports and hold at least 3 voting event in the 6 months periods

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

The impact the LATAM Cardano Community is bringing to the Cardano ecosystem is very difficult to measure in hard metrics, as we are creating impact at many levels and areas.

As per our previous experience, and the demonstrated outcomes, we have validated, prorrated and determined that the cost for each event we do has an average of ADA 3879, covering following activities:

• Payment of different tools: Discord, Zoom, Office 365 accounts (4)
• Creation, publication and maintenance of the LATAM website
• Content generation for promotions, paying as a service for Illustrators & Designers.
• Hosting and Organization of each event
• Marketing and communication of each event topic and activity
• Document every single activity of the Community for transparency
• Social Channels management and moderation
• CIP1694 follow up and engagement
• Intersect MBO startup participation to make it start as inclusive and diverse as possible.
• Minimum Viable Constitution work to generate a process to start discussing it

So in 6 months we will be hosting 24 events, for a total of ADA 93.105

We will need this budget to be spent in 6 payments of ADA 15.517,5 so we can keep up with the costs.

We opted to use this form of costing, that our range of activities are very diverse and it is very difficult to get a detailed cost for each one, as we have a lot of volunteering work, a very changing agenda and a growing and needy community. So we need to focus our efforts on keeping the community spaces we have generated open and engaging, while we continue working with new activities and challenges to articulate the LATAM talent at the global level while also bringing the Cardano opportunity to the region.

Again, with the trust and support from the community, our contributions will keep growing and innovating to bring more people and brains into the Cardano fam, driving more inclusion and diversity which is a key cornerstone to generate the next stage in humans organization and sustainability

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

IT is very hard to measure the impact of a community such as the LATAM Cardano Community, specially in hard metrics, but if we take a look about the amount of people and projects we interact, both at he regional level, as well as with the rest of the global community, we will be able to understand the type and quality of impact this community has brought to Cardano.

The level of feedbacks and insights we have generated. The growing number of projects in LATAM that are generating impact on their specific purpose and niche.

We can certainly conclude that the community is creating a very high impact for the value for money we have received and are requesting, if we can look at the numbers from the TownHalls, The Twitter Spaces, the amount of projects that were able to emerge from the community, and all this in a Bear Market and without funding.

The opportunity is here and we have the passion and the resiliency to go for it, if the global community support us we will deliver, as we have been doing from the last year and a half.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.